Humor and irony are ubiquitous phenomena in our mental lives: we often
refer to situations, persons, or states of affairs in humorous or
ironical ways using language, drawings, gestures, and other modes of
expression. From a philosophical and scientific perspective, humor and
irony are an interesting interface of cognitive and emotional processes.
Yet despite the importance and relevance of humor and irony, research
in empirically informed philosophy and the cognitive sciences has only
begun to understand these phenomena.
In the seminar we will provide
an overview of the recent theoretical and empirical literature and
discuss the following questions: first, what is humor and how can it be
understood from a cognitive science perspective? Second, how can irony
be captured theoretically and how can it be studied empirically?
Finally, how can we describe the relation between humor and irony?
- Kursleiter/in: Philipp Robert Keim
- Kursleiter/in: Markus Werning